So I have been off medications. (cant afford them) and I have to say...

When I was on medication I began to kinda question my symptoms.. wondering well maybe I dont have ADD... then wondered if maybe it was because of the medication making me not notice my symptoms or effectively controlling them.

My prescription ended and I began to fear that maybe I didnt have ADD (I couldnt remember my symptoms) and worried about going back to my psychatrist... I couldnt even remember why I needed medication.. what was I going to say to him..?!

Well I have been off medication for at least 3weeks now.. and NOW I think I am seeing the symptoms again.

My biggest problem: Missing time.

Its like I am in the process of doing something..... then without realizing it.. I "tune out" on a totally different thought.....when I have "tuned back in eventually to what I was doing prior to that thought... I realize that I cant remember if I did was I was suppose to be doing.... Its like I miss time.. and my body just continues.. or "doesnt continue" whatever it was that I was just doing.

For example: I am sitting at my laptop selecting some songs from a playlist to listen to... as I am adding some... I "TUNE OUT" on some random thought... when I tune back in... I am looking somewhere else in my music list... and for the life of me cant remember if I added "that" song.. or "that" one.... and have to go back and actually look...or end up adding it twice.

Is this a primary symptom? I can hardly remember what I was like before medications....

Also, I cant for the live of me keep on top of my mess....everywhere I sit.. it collects all around me.

And the other day.. I accidentally blurted out something that I realized after (from the eye opened stare) that I probably shouldnt have said.
But to me... didnt seem like such a bad thing.. until after I said... WHY DID I SAY IT??!!

Same when people are talking to me... I tune out... and miss what they are saying... I always think I hear them.. somewhere in the back.. like a distant mumbling.... then I clue in... and have to ask them to repeat it.

Frustrating.

Missing time.. happen alot?

Missing time-------> 35% of the time

i do that a lot...

thats why my boss asked my if i was going back on meds any time soon lol

It goes along with hyperfocus really well.

Yep...happens here too.

Kid: "Mom, can I have some juice?
Me: answers but isn't paying attention "Sure".
minutes go by....
Kid: "Mom, where's my juice?
Me: "Oh, sorry I forgot" Walks to the refrigerator, stands there, looks around and closes door.
Kid: A few minutes later... "Mom! my juice?".
Me: "What?" "Oh yeah, right."

Pathetic.
Where was I during all of that?

You're describing me.
I loose track and don't know if I got something done or not. :eyebrow:
I speak without thinking and realize I could have put it much better.:foot:

I do that ALL the time. I even do it when I'm driving. Which is very scary. I'll be one place and then I'm 3 minutes down the road when I come out of it and I'm like OH look where I am. Not good!

missing time:

I use to think that I was the only one that had this problem I find that when i am on the computer really working on my photo's tht I can loose hours, if not a whole day. So what I try to do is make my self take breaks, set an alarm clock or timer to go off that way I have to refocus on something else.

Mostly in the shower, I use my watch alarms to keep me somewhat on time. Actully, come to think of it, probably all through the day... I only remember if someone gets angry or something happens, like changing the water in the fish tank and I start to hear water flooding the floor...

I hope you guys don't mind, but I thought this little article of mine, really hits the spot - I wondered how many of us really experience this 'time dillemma'.

Here you go: Shorter lives those with ADD ADHD and TIME (http://adderworld.com/blog1/2007/11/01/shorter-lives-those-with-add-adhd-and-time/)

Loose time me never I just clicked a hyperlink in the post above mine {had to see what it was I am nosy that way} and began reading one thing about time then I was reading about the Simon person on American idol - think he must have perfect pitch because he make remarks about the singers who hurt my ears - man if I had known I could have made money off being able to tell a good singer from a rotten one and being a smart *** and hmmmm What was I doing and how did I get here - thank goodness for tabbed browsing - I just clicked back one and arrived back here and how did I get around the Internet before tabbed browsing - and I think my medication are like gone hours ago

In other ward I not only loose time I loose space and forget topics {and I am supposed to be making sure others stay on topic - what topic -:eek: scary}


- hmm could be the ADD. ;)

That was just too funny!

I hope you guys don't mind, but I thought this little article of mine, really hits the spot - I wondered how many of us really experience this 'time dillemma'.

Here you go: Shorter lives those with ADD ADHD and TIME (http://adderworld.com/blog1/2007/11/01/shorter-lives-those-with-add-adhd-and-time/)Good article, Bryanh, and very funny, Mead823, I do the same thing. :D

Also.. :soapbox:
The longer you live the faster time appears to speed up, because each day is a smaller percentage of your total life lived. If you are 5 years old each day seems very long as you have only lived one day out of 1,825 days.. if you are 50 years old you have lived for 18,250 days, the days seem much shorter and they will keep feeling shorter as you get older.. BUT starying busy, getting things done that can remind you that you are alive and.. here; and just being aware of the present will extend the feeling of time being longer.

It can also happen with dissociative disorders.

Man ADD3D, I agree with the staying in the here and now, but did you have to go into detail about how the days get shorter the older we get.... man, this day went by like 10 minutes and I turn 39 in a few months... just kidding around, but you make a really good point nontheless :)

Yeah...I did that yesterday and today. I was in a convention for a few days...some of the speakers and the activities kept me interested, but for the most part when it came down to doing the activity with my group I was like sooo...what are we doing...lol

Are you sure there was any time to miss in the first place?

Maybe other people are acquiring extra time and you've just been left out of the loop?

Actually, since i have been unable to figure out exactly what time is, or rather, to find a cross-field agreement on how time show be defined, I really can't help with this one. http://addforums.com/forums/images/smilies/frown.gif

Man ADD3D, I agree with the staying in the here and now, but did you have to go into detail about how the days get shorter the older we get.... man, this day went by like 10 minutes and I turn 39 in a few months... just kidding around, but you make a really good point nontheless :)Hehe.. sorry, couldn't help myself, I guess the time just flew by and before I knew it.. :eek:

Oh yeah. I have to set up physical cues to keep me on track -- calendars with great big letters, notes pinned to the wall, electronic sticky notes with alarms (http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/index.html), laundry basket set in the middle of the hallway (off to the side doesn't cut it), and jobs needing doing laid out all across the dining room table. And these blatant reminders are not always sufficient.

The internet gobbles up great gobs of time. I read quite a lot, online and offline. I jump up in the middle of a task and rush off to the store to get better pens or more stickie notes or a new sweater or chocolate, and between travel time and shopping time there's three hours shot all to blazes.

If I had used all my time efficiently over the years, I would have my Nobel Prize by now.

Ducky